The Turner Family

Check down the starboard side of the blog, and you will see links for both Accra weather and news. Yes, I'm a geek.

Greetings. Due to an inquiry by mom and dad about posting to the Turner Family Blog, I started digging around Blogger to investigate if there were easier means for posting, and I found that posts can be made simply by email. This post was created from a test message I sent, complete with the photo enclosed below. If you're using a standard email program (Outlook, Entourage, Outlook Express, Mail , Thunderbird , etc.), just open a new email, and whatever is typed in the subject line becomes the title for the blog post. Perform the layout in the email -- pictures and text -- and this becomes the meat of blog entry. The address for the email blog posting is: turnec dot turnerfamily at blogger dot com Replace the 'dot' with . and the 'at' with @ (this format keeps the robot spammers from nailing us). If you have any questions, email me and I will send the actual email address without the dots. Hope this helps, it seems like a much simpler process, especially for posting...

Congratulations to Sarah for her graphical and narrative Colorado entry, which was the 100 th post on the Turner Family blog , and to mom as well for moving us past the century mark with her entry on Josh's football game. Thanks to all extended contributors for keeping the family close, if not geographically, then electronically.

For those of us that were experiencing difficulty in moving through the registration process to the new Blogger, click the title link above (or here ) to read an article about the universality of Blogger problems.

Hey Turner Family blog participants, You should have now received an email from me at one of the above addresses, with instructions about how to re-subscribe and re-contribute to the Turner Family blog. Please pardon the additional step for registering, as you now need to create a google account using your email address, but this is the direction that blogger.com was heading. There should be a link in the email for all the steps necessary to register with google and take part in the new blog, but feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or problems. Thanks, Chris

In addition to being pleased with how the blog is gaining momentum and submissions, I used my editing powers to delete the redundant posts, in order to save loading time (we have to be considerate of the people that are actually still on dial-up). I have created and posted a tutorial on how to post to Blogger, loading photos, etc., let me know how it works for you. Additionally, you can point to Dummies Guide to Google's Blogger , Blogger Tips and Tricks or the official Blogger help pages FYI , Chris

Wow, all the updates everyone has made are fun and encouraging: Josh and his photos and schedule, and Sarah and her travels. I've done some very minor work on the page template itself, to include some links on the side that are noteworthy for their geographic location or personal interest (Dad loves Pasty Central, and I've got to admit I've poked around there too; give it a look). So, if anyone has suggestions for additional links that fulfill your need for local or iconoclastic information -- not necessarily limited to Michigan; remember, this is for the Turner family at large -- feel free to submit them via email or post them here, and I will update the page.